Directory of Esther Resources

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Subcategories

• Haman, her persecutor
• Mordecai, her cousin

Resources in This Category

• Catholic Encyclopedia: Esther

  http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05549a.htm
  Commentary on the Biblical heroine from the traditional Catholic perspective.

• Esther

  http://www.aboutbibleprophecy.com/p150.htm
  Profile of the Jewish queen from a joint Lutheran and Catholic bible study project.

• Esther

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther
  Essay about the life of the Persian Jewish queen.

• Esther

  http://www.keyway.ca/htm2002/estherb.htm
  Biblical biography of the Jewish queen.

• Esther, Not Judith

  http://fontes.lstc.edu/~rklein/Documents/esther.htm
  Critical analysis of the Jewish heroines and the reasons Esther is the more popular of the two.

• Megillat Esther

  http://etzion.org.il/vbm/english/purim/pur-es.htm
  Analysis of the Book of Esther, with cultural explanations of the satire and some of the queen's odd-seeming behavior.

• Queen Esther: The Merit of Things Hidden

  http://www.torah.org/learning/women/class57.html
  Essay about the Jewish ideals of femininity embodied in the biblical heroine.

• The Apocryphal Book of Esther

  http://www.jewishencyclopedia.com/view.jsp?artid=484&letter=E
  Later Jewish writings about the story of Esther intended to supply the missing faith elements from the original Megillah.

• The Essence of Esther

  http://www.torah.org/learning/women/class23.html
  Character study of the Biblical queen as a metaphor for Judaism in exile.

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